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Costume Design

1588-1589 (made)
Artist/Maker
Bernardo Buontalenti (artist)
Place of origin
Florence (made)

Two designs for costumes for female performers


Object details

Categories
Theatre
Womenswear
Fancy-Dress
Clothing
Drawings
Designs
Object type
Costume design
Materials and techniques
pen and bistre with watercolour
Pen and Watercolour
Bistre
Watercolour Drawing
Brief description
Bernado Buontalenti. Costume designs for the Florentine Intermezzi held in 1589 in honour of the marriage of the Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany with Christina of Lorraine.
Physical description
Two designs for costumes for female performers
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 24.2cm
  • Estimate width: 26.3cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, I. Before 1800, C.M. Kauffmann, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1973
Credit line
Given by the National Art-Collections Fund
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1936, London: Board of Education, 1937.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.614-1936

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1008817/costume-design-bernardo-buontalenti/
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